Word: schooling
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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This week Allen is in Washington at the White House Conference on Children, superselling his suggestion that every school system in the nation should create an "alternative" school "where change is the tradition." Said he: "Students will no longer tolerate a procrustean system of education. I want useful alternatives and an atmosphere of choice...
...First Alarm. Allen's off-campus missionary projects (400 speeches last year) occupy him four days a week, and even though he often starts his on-campus days at 4:30 a.m., troubles are building up. Ironically, the new ed school shows signs of tripping into some of the intellectual vacuity that marked its pre-Allen days. Administrative procedures are disorganized; last summer the state auditor's office sounded the first alarm in a probable public reaction by charging that the school's books were too vague...
...Allen has retained the overall support of Chancellor Tippo, but he admits he has made some mistakes and expects to make more. He is convinced that taking risks is the only way to change the school, and most of his faculty agree. "Dwight Allen promises more than he can deliver," sighs one professor, "but he always delivers more than you expect...
...years ago, the athletic director at Julia Barash's high school in Monroe, N.Y., refused to let her try out for the school's varsity tennis team−an all-male squad. His shaky ground: state regulations say that girls just don't compete with boys. Julia appealed to the state education department. Advised by counsel that Julia would win a court case in straight sets, the department defaulted. She promptly became Monroe's top player and pulled the team out of the cellar into a tie for first place...
...rage outside. Columbia has a similar structure. In Manhattan last month, an air-supported building housed the fast-paced musical Orlando Furioso in Bryant Park. Another protects the disassembled blocks of an Egyptian temple outside New York's Metropolitan Museum. In Mamaroneck, N.Y., a bubble covers the high school swimming pool; in Indianapolis, another protects a hockey rink. In Los Angeles, bubbles are used for classrooms...